In 2023, after a wave of severe forest disturbance across Central Europe, we made a big group effort of surveying post-disturbance regeneration. It involved a lot of scrambling through brambles, but also a lot of fun (and reassuring to see a lot of regeneration). Happy to see the results published!

We're hiring! In the Future Forests excellence cluster, we're looking for a postdoc in participatory modelling. If you like modelling but are also interested in transdisciplinary research and co-creation with stakeholders, this position is for you! 🌲🤝🧑‍💻 uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

New paper - and final PhD chapter of @lisa-mandl.bsky.social - published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. Using Landsat recovery and meteorological data, we show that thermal limitations constrain post-disturbance recovery success across forests of the European Alps: doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

"Closer-to-nature" forest management has been proposed as a way to reconcile biodiversity and ecosystem services, especially under a changing climate. But can it work? And how strong is the evidence? In this paper, we synthesized knowledge from Central Europe: doi.org/10.1007/s407...

Come work with us! We are hiring a PhD to work on human-bear coexistence from a social-ecological systems perspective. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004... As part of an international project, you'll use qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate coexistence with bears in Slovenia 🚵🐻

Jetzt bewerben! Beim #Exzellenzcluster #FutureForests sind 21 Doktorand*innenstellen zu besetzen. Mehr Informationen zum Exzellenzcluster, seinem #Forschungsprofil und den ausgeschriebenen Stellen: ➡️ uni-freiburg.de/futureforest...

Do you like forests and computer models? 🌳🧑‍💻 Within the Future Forests excellence cluster, we are hiring two modellers for 7 year (!) positions here in Freiburg. A scientific coordinator role: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004... And and a scientific programmer role: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

Come work with us! We are looking to fill a PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc position (forest adaptive capacity, w/ @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social). We'd be happy to have you as part of our dynamic team! PhD: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0... PostDoc: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

What is our role as ecologists in times of biodiversity crisis? We reflected on this with participants of the Neretva Science Week in 2023, and the results are now published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 📷Vladimir Tadić: upper Neretva

Huge congratulations to everyone who was part of developing the #FutureForests cluster! 💪 I'm excited to be part of this over the coming years 🌲🌳🧑‍💻

Nice work from @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social showing that contrary to some beliefs, setting forests aside (i.e. not managing them) does not increase disturbances - unmanaged forests are actually less disturbed 🌲

Do you like forests and coding? Come work with me @uni-freiburg.de! Only 5 days left to apply:

Bitte teilt den Appell von S4F für Klima und Umwelt in eurem Umfeld und zeichnet ihn, wenn ihr in der Wissenschaft aktiv bzw promoviert seid. www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o... Bis Donnerstag, 10:00 Uhr, ist die Unterzeichnung des Appell möglich.

Just two days left to submit an abstract to the IMC! 🏔️

🚨Alert to #forest and #fire enthusiasts: W3 professorship for Fire Ecology at @uni-freiburg.de ! More information here: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004... Its a great place to work and live at!

I'm happy to share that I will soon be starting a new position as junior professor of Modelling of Social-Ecological Systems at the @uni-freiburg.de I'm excited to start some new research on the interactions between forests and people, and will be hiring two PhD students...

It's been great fun researching and exploring the beautiful landscape of the Berchtesgaden national park with amazing colleagues from the park and @edfm-tum.bsky.social As I'll be moving on to a new job soon, my current position is now open: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

Our team is looking for a PostDoc! When you are eager to actually look at what we humans do in mountain forest systems and like to get your hands on data, you are the right person for this! 🌳🧑‍🤝‍🧑🌲 We are a fun lab to be in - you will find outdoor and coffee buddies and good vibes 👓🧗🚵☕

We are hiring! We're looking to fill a PostDoc position on social-ecological systems. Are you excited about the spatio-temporal dynamics of coupled human and natural mountain systems? Then come join us, and work in a wonderful & diverse team + beautiful environment! www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

Abstract submission is now open for the hashtag#IMC2025 in Innsbruck! Following a very interesting session at IUFRO last year, we are organizing another session on protective forests with @alebottero.bsky.social, Michaela Teich, Christine Moos and Natalie Piazza: imc2025.info/imc25/sessio...

We are hiring a professor (assistant/associate) for Transformative Landscape Governance at @tumuenchen.bsky.social. If you're working on landscape planning under global change from a social-ecological perspective, we'd be happy to hear from you!

Great talk from the brilliant @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social on why planting trees is not the easy solution to climate change - but there's still some hope for forests, too :)

The wonderful Ecosystem Dynamics and Forest Management Group at @tumuenchen.bsky.social is now also here on Bluesky (and no longer on the other platform). Feel free to check in, say hi and follow for updates: @edfm-tum.bsky.social